We have an exciting opportunity to support our Manchester based client on a 6 month Data Engineer contract role. We are looking for a visionary individual to lead the creation of a high-performing, scalable, and compliant data platform. Your role will involve modernizing current ad-hoc data solutions using advanced technologies to generate high-quality data for analysis. Responsibilities: Collaborate with business users to design and implement efficient, secure, and scalable data pipelines using standardized tools and procedures. Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement enhancements to prevent recurrence. Take full ownership of the data quality within core datasets and pipelines. Work with other teams to identify and resolve data quality issues. Ensure data is complete, accessible, and consumable in a fast-paced development environment. Maintain data security, integrity, and governance by adhering to company standards and best practices. Promote data quality, governance, and security within product and engineering teams. Contribute to and evolve best practices for architecture, quality, and non-functional requirements. Experiment with new tools and technologies to enhance engineering excellence. Design, build, test, and support high-quality code in line with departmental guidelines and testing strategies. Qualifications: 5 years of experience building big data pipelines in distributed environments using tools such as Airflow, Kafka, Hadoop, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS IAM, Spark, SQL, Python, and DBT. Strong data modeling skills (e.g., Dimensional, Data Vault). Passionate about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Agile methodologies. Solid understanding of security principles and secure coding practices. Experience with large-scale, well-governed, and compliant systems. Proven ability to lead, guide, and coach team members both technically and procedurally. Basic knowledge of analytics and machine learning concepts. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Understanding of cloud security best practices. Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS. If you are interested, please apply with your CV and we will be in touch to discuss further